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Flexera Software, the leading provider of next-generation software licensing, compliance, security and installation solutions for application producers and enterprises, has released a Vulnerability Update covering the Top 20 products with the most vulnerabilities in May, June and July 2016.

A recently signed law promises to save the government at least $2 billion a year on software. Even with the coming change of administration, lawmakers and industry experts are hopeful the measure will live up to its billing.

Users are far more lax about updating and fixing apps they run on their PCs than updating Windows

Flexera Software has found good news and bad news for both Australian Windows users and cybersecurity. New research from Secunia Research shows that the percentage of unpatched Windows operating systems dropped in the second quarter of 2016, but the percentage of unpatched non-Microsoft software is on the rise.

A key component in keeping your system up-to-date, Secunia Personal Software Inspector scans every program on your PC and tells you in no uncertain terms if you have any wayward programs that haven’t been patched.

Although the total number of vulnerabilities continues to rise, new research finds that most are not zero-day risks.

Links to malware inside online advertising bypassed the security systems of the advertising serving companies and distributed ransomware to unsuspecting ‘link clickers’.

In its mobile app risk assessment report “March Madness or April Foods” Flexera Software highlighted BYOD security issues by analyzing the annual March Madness craze as employees are using apps on their corporate and BYOD devices to stream content, complete brackets and track March Madness activities.

A new study has found that employees installing dating apps on corporate-issued or Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phones could create potential security risks for a business.

A new report suggests many of the most popular March Madness apps for iPhone and iPad request access to potentially sensitive information, and they could endanger corporate data stored on BYOD phones and tablets.

Secunia has been behind Personal Software Inspector (PSI), as free care to keep all other computer programs to date. Damgaard owned 22 per cent. of the company and says to Børsen that he earned 103 million. kr. on sales. (This article has been translated to English from Danish by Google Translate)

Next-generation software licensing, compliance, security and installation company, Flexera Software, has acquired software vulnerability management firm, Secunia.With this acquisition, Flexera Software will be able to offer its more than 80,000 customers worldwide the ability to discover, rationalise and normalise data tied to the identification of software, hardware, firmware and now security vulnerabilities across the network — putting management and risk mitigation back into the customers hands.

"Thomas Duryea Australia has claimed a top global award with software vulnerability management vendor Secunia. The company brought home Secunia’s CSI Partner of the Year, which was presented at a partner community awards dinner in Prague in the Czech Republic."

"The Munich-based specialist for licensing, compliance and rolling out software, Flexera Software has acquired the Danish company Secunia. Secunia specializes in Vulnerability Management. Specific details of the sale were not disclosed. In Flexera but one notes that significant synergies would lie in the combination of security software by Secunia with their own programs. (This article has been translated to English from German by Google Translate)"

Secunia, a company specializing in software vulnerability management, was acquired by the software asset management company Flexera Software. The joint discovery of assets and Flexera management tools with the software platform to Secunia's vulnerability analysis will give organizations the ability to carefully evaluate the safety of the applications found on your network, said Mark Bishof, CEO of Flexera Software . (This article has been translated to English from Portuguese by Google Translate)

Security firm Secunia has been purchased by the US software group Flexera Software, which puts an undisclosed millions on the table to get their hands on the Danish golden eggs. (This article has been translated to English from Danish by Google Translate)

While individual consumers and enterprises are accustomed to new releases of the Windows OS every few years, Windows 10 will now introduce regular and continual updates in perpetuity. Following its launch, the next update, known as Service Release 1 (SR1) is already rumoured to be arriving in August, with a larger update scheduled for October. While this can be considered a positive development for individual consumers, for enterprise IT departments, this presents a whole new level difficulty, and requires greater attentiveness and support. Why?

From managing meeting invites, booking business travel, to organizing notes, there is almost certainly an app that helps us improve productivity in our daily lives. As consumers have started to rely more heavily on user-friendly, tailored, and task-oriented apps, we are seeing the “there’s an app for that” mentality growing in the workplace, which is driving the emerging “appification” of the enterprise.